Sax-punk! Maceo on motorspeed! Bird and 'trane going Metallic KO under the spell of Rotten's Pistols! African tribesmen supporting the miners' strike on a diet of Trout Mask Replica! Fela forsaking James Brown in order to join PiL! Quel primeval energy!

Ted Milton and his men are out and about again, as they've always been, though not always under the Blurt moniker, and what better way to celebrate this than to reissue their seminal singles and other underground hits? Somewhere between a Certain Ratio, 23 Skidoo, Medium Medium, Rip Rig & Panic and the Pop Group on the one hand, and the Lounge Lizards, Defunkt and NYC's avant-garde jazz à la Knitting Factory on the other, with a sniff of Document + Eyewitness era Wire experiment, and X Ray Spex excitement, added to the heady brew, Blurt's intense, raw, energetic, sound still stands tall today. And could even inspire a few people who urgently need to rethink their plot before they reinvent the Members in response to the challenge launched by the White Stripes & co... Even if the neutron bomb or Thatcher are no longer worrying us ("or did other threats take their place?", he asked rhetorically.)

This first volume features Get, My Mother Was A Friend Of An Enemy Of The People, and Enemy Ears as the most 'famous' tracks. But no track will disappoint you if you can get as far gone as Blurt themselves.